kaizen says:
What are your thoughts on the book, I just finished reading it, it is ahead of its time, in my opinion, in many ways and goes far beyond the concept of good and evil...Is there a metaphore there??
Thanks
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Jun 5, 2007
9:14 pm
9:14 pm
cresswga says:
I only read the book a few years ago so by that time I had been tainted by many film and tv variations of the story.
I enjoyed the book but was initially surprised at how short it was.
I personally viewed it as a study of the two sides of a persons nature and the capability for good and evil within them.
What seems amusing now is that whilst it is never explicitly told what Mr Hyde got up to some of it would probably seem tame by todays standards (I am thinking drinking and sex rather than the murder) so it now also serves as an interesting look at Victorian society.
I only read the book a few years ago so by that time I had been tainted by many film and tv variations of the story.
I enjoyed the book but was initially surprised at how short it was.
I personally viewed it as a study of the two sides of a persons nature and the capability for good and evil within them.
What seems amusing now is that whilst it is never explicitly told what Mr Hyde got up to some of it would probably seem tame by todays standards (I am thinking drinking and sex rather than the murder) so it now also serves as an interesting look at Victorian society.
Jun 6, 2007
11:20 am
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